Title :
Variable Slowlight Buffers in All-Optical Packet Switching Routers
Author :
Jie Yang ; Karalar, Aytug O ; Djordjevic, Stevan S. ; Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Chunxin Yang ; Wei Chen ; Sai Chu ; Little, Brent E. ; Ben Yoo, S.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
We investigated variable slowlight buffers consisting of 8 and 32 tunable-coupled-resonator-rings. Experiments showed error-free operations exhibiting variable delays of 0~2 ns at 1.25 Gb/s for 8-ring and 0-350 ps at 10 Gb/s for 32-ring structures.
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical resonators; optical switches; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; all-optical packet switching routers; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; error-free operations; tunable-coupled-resonator-rings; variable delays; variable slowlight buffers; Error-free operation; Optical buffering; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Packet switching; Propagation delay; Resonance;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528595
